Payson Avenue & Beak Street

Payson Avenue and Beak Street meet at a three-way junction in Inwood, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Inwood Hill Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them parks, and 15 places to eat. About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1930, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
1,180 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
1,240 feet
Broadway/Dyckman St · Bx7
Within a walk
17 places
4 parks, 3 park features and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Payson Avenue & Beak Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 1,180 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Dyckman St A
    1,180 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. A …
Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Inwood-207 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Dyckman St, 1,240 feet away, for the Bx7.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Dyckman St Bx7 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    1,240 feet
    Bx7
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Seaman Ave & Beak St 21 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 242 Dyckman Street Gas station
    990 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 195 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2013 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Beak Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Beak Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Payson Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 park features
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Harold O. Levy School
    1,240 feet
  2. High School for Excellence and Innovation School
    1,240 feet
  3. Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Inwood Hill Park
    30 feet
  2. Payson Playground
    500 feet
  3. Whale Back Rock in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    520 feet
Show all 10
  1. White Pines in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    860 feet
  2. RING - Riverside Inwood Neighborhood Garden
    960 feet
  3. Lt. Wm. Tighe Triangle
    970 feet
  4. Glacial Potholes in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    970 feet
  5. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  6. Fort Washington Park
    1,230 feet
  7. Anne Loftus Playground
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Quisqueya Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Inwood Library–joseph and Sheila Rosenblatt Building Library
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beak Street or Payson Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.